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Home > GCSE > English > In Act One of ‘An Inspector Calls’ how does J.B Priestley use dramatic devices to convey his concerns and ideas to the members of the audience, as well as interest and involve them in his play?

In Act One of ‘An Inspector Calls’ how does J.B Priestley use dramatic devices to convey his concerns and ideas to the members of the audience, as well as interest and involve them in his play?

In Act One of ‘An Inspector Calls’ how does J.B Priestley use dramatic devices to convey his concerns and ideas to the members of the audience, as well as interest and involve them in his play?

An inspector calls J.B Priestly In act one of an "An Inspector Calls" how does J.B. Priestly uses dramatic devices to convey his concerns and ideas to the members of the audience as well as interest and involve them in the play?Three major themes experienced throughout "An Inspector Calls" are Morality, Murderand Mystery. These three themes are the surrounding and focus of Priestly throughoutthe play. Priestly in the play highlights the issues he feels strongly about regarding theflaws in the Edwardian Era through the use of dramatic devices. Priestly I believe feelsvery strong about this issue and has showed his importance towards this issue andexpressed it in his play. The play is based on a family named the Birlings who are amiddle class family. This family are having a very comfortable, pleasant and secure lifeand this can be visualized by the surrounding of the house which includes cigars, thechampagne glasses and the decanter of port. This family is wanted to be questioned byan inspector about a casualty that had happened the day before. Eva Smith, a youngpoor classed lady had tragically died because "she'd swallowed a lot of strongdisinfectant". The inspector has come to interrogate the Birlings about this young ladywhere surprisingly every individual of the family has a fraction to tell the inspector.J.B. Priestly expresses and communicates his concerns about the Edwardian Era to theaudience via the inspector. The inspector uses his intellectual humour and excellence toshow the family that separation of any kind is unsatisfactory. Inspector Goole can beacknowledged as an awakening for the Birling's, this is shown by: Eric Birling. SheilaBirling and Mrs Birling are accountable and guilty for Eva smith's murder. "AnInspector Calls" could be classified as a political drama and would of been based andaimed for middle and upper class families as they were the most likely to watch theplay.The pin-point of concern about J.B. Priestly is about letting people know that anindividual and community have to combine in keeping responsibilities. Priestly shows viathe use of dramatic devices that self-interests shouldn't exceed in causing harm to thepeople around you (community). At the time of the writing of `An inspector calls' theupper-classed community had an uphold over the lower classed and showed no attentionor sympathy towards the people with less power or wealth. Astoundingly, the play waswritten in 1912 and the performance was done 33 years later in 1945. The actual playwritten only two years prior to the First World War and people were unconscious thata war was two years before them. At the time (1912) the society was more worriedabout who has more beer and wine on the table and who has the most wealth in thearea. However, the play was actually performed in 1945 after the revulsion of the warto alert and be reminiscent to people to let them know how life was before thehorrendous war.

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J.B. Priestly uses dramatic irony to portray the misunderstanding of determined peoplein 1912. Dramatic irony is when the audience understands the meaning of a situationbut, the characters in the play don't. Mr. Birling, the big-headed father of the housewho thinks because he is high-classed because of his wealth whatever he thinks isalways correct. "And every luxury and unsinkable". This is a quote by Mr.…read more

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Sheila and Gerald. "Intimate" shows the warmness and closeness between therelationship of Gerald and Sheila.Edwardian Era was a time where campaigning for poor people to have better rights wasat its peak, through strikes. Strikes were very regular from poorer commune as therich people didn't even care about how the poor felt living in an environment where thepoor are provoked by the middle-classed and rich, so the poor had to make the richaware of their problems by striking.…read more

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Mr Birling due to his manipulative and insensitive perspective. By beginning asentence with "and", shows the fact that he is not absolutely certain about isprediction but still wants to foist his opinions onto others.…read more